Frame for women&#39;s hats.



J. HUTTER.

FRAME FOR WOMEN'S HATS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28, I916.

ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. 5,1916.

J'ACOB HUTTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. Y

IEIRAME FOR WOMENS HATS,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1916.

Application filed June 28, 1916. Serial No. 106,347.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JACOB Ho'rrnn, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough ofManhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new andImproved Frame for WVomens Hats, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved frame forwomens hats arranged to permit the milliner or the wearer of the hat tovary the shape of the entire brim or any part thereof to suit theindividual taste. In order to accomplish the desired result, use is madeof ,a brim formed of an outer and an inner section, of which the innersection is made of an open .mesh relatively stiff material, and theouter section is made of a flexible or pliable material capable of beingbent to assume and retain the desired shape.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, 1n whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothviews.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved frame for womens hats;and Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line 22 ofFig. 1.

Frames for ladies hats as heretofore constructed were made of stifi netbuckram or willow, but both of these materials are of heavy body or arestarched or sized in order to give the same the desired thickness. Inorder to give the desired shape to a hat frame made of these materialsit is necessary to have a top and bottom die between which the materialis placed while in a moistened condition. The dies are heated andsubjected to pressure and on being removed the heavy material has theshape of the dies but only one shape or frame can be made between a pairof dies and it is practically impossible to alter or change the shape ofa frame made by such pair of dies. With the improvement presently to bedescribed in detail it is possible to use other flexible materialsbesides buckram and willow and especially such materials as can be givenany desired shape to suit the taste of the milliner or the wearer. Suchflexible pliable materials include imitation panama, the various softwillows, soft net and bonalean. A brim produced of these materials canbe rolled, turned up or down and otherwise bent so as to give thedesired shape to the brim to suit the taste of the milliner or wearer.

The hat frame in its general construction consists of a crown 10 and abrim 11, of which the crown 10 is preferably made of stiff buckram orwillow while the brim 11 is made of an outer annular section 12 and aninner annular section 13. The inner annular section 13 is preferablymade of the same stiff material as the crown 10 and is provided alongits inner edge with an upturned flange 1d sewed or otherwise fastened tothe lower rim of the crown 10. The outer marginal portion 15 of theinner section 13 is overlapped by the inner marginal portion 16 of theouter brim section 11 and the overlapping portions 15 and 16 arefastened together by stitches or other suitable means. The outer brimportion 11 is made of a flexible pliable material such as above referredto and capable of being bent by hand into any desired shape by themilliner or wearer according to the taste of the same, it beingunderstood that in the manufacture of the hat frame the inner sec tion13 is given a predetermined shape by subjecting it to pressure by a pairof heated dies, the same as the crown 10 above mentioned. The outer edgeof the outer brim section 12 is preferably provided with a suitablebinding 17 containing a reinforcing wire 18 which aids in preserving theshape given by the milliner or wearer to the outer brim' section 12. Itis understood that the crown 10 and the inner brim section 13 arepreferably made of open mesh stiff buckram or willow capable of beingshaped in a pair of heated dies under the application of pressure, whilethe outer section 12 is of a comparatively close mesh and is of amaterial capable of assuming and retaining a desired shape without beingsubjected to :2 shaping action between heated dies.

Having thus described my invention, I tion of the brim being ofrelatively stifi open claim as new and desire to secure by Letters meshmaterial, and the outer section of the Patent: brim being of flexibleclose mesh material,

As a new article of manufacture a ladys whereby provision is made forgiving a 5 hat, comprising a crown and a brim formed fixed shape to theinner brim section and a of two annular sections, the sections beingvariable shape to the outer section. secured together and the innersection secured to the crown, the crown and inner sec- JACOB HUTTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

